BF109 - Can't we just have the gunsight in the middle?

Can you make a drawing? I really don't get what you try to explain, b101.

Two images I found on the net.

Here a cockpit image of a 109E


Note that the left edge of the reflector sight is on or at least very very close to the centre of the cockpit. Also note that the reflector glas is quite big.

Now here an image of a pilot sitting in a 109. Please note that he sits a bit leaned to his left side but it gives a good impression about where his eyes would be if he sat central:


I think the paralaxis is so small that my guess is that he wouldnt have had to lean sideways for aiming.

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

Note that the left edge of the reflector sight is on or at least very very close to the centre of the cockpit.

In CoD's un-shifted view the left-edge of the reflector glass is just millimetres from the centre of the screen.

We are flying with a Cyclops as a pilot. That's why we need this leaning over/Shift-F1 nonsense. None of which is realistic.

If CoD wants to simulate a real pilot with realistic binocular vision then we should get a reticle that was fully visible and appears to float 'outside' of the reflector glass.

Like so....

[b101uk]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

Can you make a drawing? I really don't get what you try to explain, b101.

Find some clear safety glasses with individual lenses, get a fine tip marker pen and put a small fine cross on the RH lenses about the same diameter in total as 1p coin in line with ware your right eye would be centred, put on the clear safety glasses with the fine cross marked on the RH lenses and tell us what you see - a combined image by your brain.

It is the same “optical brain trick” used by NV/targeting monocles etc used by pilots of e.g. AH-64 or I use to use when I did a lot of shooting with both iron and telescopic sights (you get use to seeing a merged image with the black haze of the outside of the telescopic sights with the left eye which you don’t get with a monocle etc)

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by b101uk

It is the same “optical brain trick” used by NV/targeting monocles etc used by pilots of e.g. AH-64

I had an Apache HMS post lined up ready to go.